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SnapSecChat: The Demand for Security as a Service

Before you roll your eyes at another “as a service” term, listen to what Sumo Logic CSO George Gerchow has to say about it in this latest SnapSecChat video series. The reason why offering solutions “as a service” has become so widespread is because that’s the way it should be done, especially with security.

Quest Enhances KACE Product Line to Simplify Unified Endpoint Management

ALISO VIEJO, CALIF. – June 20, 2018 – Quest Software, a global systems management and security software provider, today announced several enhancements to its KACE product line. The updates enable and empower organizations as they move to a unified endpoint management (UEM) environment by simplifying their endpoint infrastructure to create a more secure computing environment.

GKE security with Falco and Google Cloud Security Command Center.

A few weeks ago, we announced Sysdig partnership with Google to integrate Sysdig Secure with Google Cloud Security Command Center, a single pane of glass for your security events in Google Cloud. Today we announce that Sysdig Falco, our open source project for container and Kubernetes run-time security, can also send Kubernetes security events to Google Cloud Security Command Center. Sysdig Falco is part of the underlying technology of Sysdig Secure.

Top 5 Commercial SIEM Tools

Following our comprehensive introduction to SIEM systems, we looked at the available open source SIEM platforms. In this third article in our SIEM series, we review five of the most popular commercial offerings in this space. We evaluate them by looking at their intended audience and market segment, deployment model, SIEM features (threat intelligence, reporting, etc.), and each solution’s pros and cons.

Sysdig Secure 2.0 - adds vulnerability management, 200+ compliance checks, and security analytics.

A little over 2 years ago we opensourced Sysdig Falco with the goal of providing a robust detection engine that the community could use to securely run containers in production. Since the launch we expanded the default ruleset and have had 750,000+ downloads of Sysdig Falco. Organizations like cloud.gov and Yahoo have used Falco to detect behavioral anomalies across their containerized infrastructure.

The Force Awakens: PagerDuty + Datadog for DevSecOps

As a long-time security professional, I’m always interested to hear about how companies like Datadog are keeping up with the changing security landscape. I can recall when the security organization was solely responsible for security, and we were focused on protecting the perimeter of our business. However, with the advent of the cloud, mobile, and web applications, that perimeter has disappeared.